Saint Georges, Delaware

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Red Lion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 19733. The Survey maps it on the Saint Georges quadrangle. 1,957 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Saint Georges within New Castle County

On record in Saint Georges

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 7 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Sutton Houselisted 1973 · 0.0 miles away
St. Georges Presbyterian Churchlisted 1984 · 0.1 miles away
North Saint Georges Historic Districtlisted 1995 · 0.1 miles away
Vernacular Frame Houselisted 1982 · 0.2 miles away
Bloomfieldlisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
Linden Hilllisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
Idalia Manorlisted 1985 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 32 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1904 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500
1906 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1919 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Saint Georges quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1966 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1972 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Wilmington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Saint Georges quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Saint Georges: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Delaware Plant Getty	Sulfur	Plant
Freeway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Freeway Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Gams Crest	0.4 miles	32
Saint Georges Heights	0.6 miles	32
Birds Corner	0.8 miles	32
Wrangle Hill	1.7 miles	32
Dutch Neck Farms	2.0 miles	32
Biddles Corner	2.1 miles	32
Airmont Acres	2.1 miles	32
Lorewood Grove	2.2 miles	32

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Saint Georges	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7401312	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 214574. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.